Spirits

May 25, 2019

If you want to borrow a country music cliché, you could say that Gravely’s brewer Cory Buenning was craft beer before craft beer was cool. He started homebrewing in the early 1990s while studying at University of Colorado Boulder, at a time when homebrewing...

Roughly six months after it opened, Cox’s Hot Chicken in downtown New Albany suddenly closed its doors this week. The restaurant was two businesses in one, with one side focused on carry-out and delivery and another focused on being a restaurant and sports bar....

Mile Wide Beer Co. will soon have a roommate – a roommate that makes Neapolitan-style pizza. The brewery, which opened in 2016 at 636 Barret Ave., is teaming up with the owners of Jeffersontown restaurant Mac’s Dough House to create Mac’s at Mile Wide,...

It wasn’t that long ago when Jeffersonville played the role of the quintessential sleepy little river town. For years, Jeffboat was the last enduring reminder of the shipbuilding epicenter the place once was. But a walking connection to Louisville in the form of the...

Continuing on with my neighborhood series spotlight on the wide world of watering holes, my crew and I decided to venture out to Highview for an evening to see what kind of trouble we could find. What we stumbled across were four lively bars,...

The third annual Kentucky Craft Bash isn’t until June 22, but the list of barrel-aged beers that will be rolled out at the all-Kentucky festival may have you counting down the days. Once again this year, the Kentucky Guild of Brewers-run festival partnered with...

Twenty of Louisville’s top food trucks will converge Saturday afternoon at the Big Four Lawn for the second annual Louisville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival. Add to that 10 regional breweries, live music, unicorns (!) and predicted temperatures into the upper 80s, and...

After teasing Louisville residents with quirky billboards and social media posts using the hashtag #WeAreCaesar these last few weeks, Horseshoe Southern Indiana announced on Wednesday that its forthcoming land-based casino in Elizabeth, Ind., will open as Caesars Southern Indiana. The 100,000-square-foot, $85 million casino...

When Noble Funk Brewing ultimately opens in the old Kroger building on South Second Street, it won’t just be a brewery. The owners envision it as a project to help give the Old Louisville neighborhood something it has been missing. “Our goal with that...

Each year, the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) coalition releases a study that benchmarks water, energy and emissions from distilleries and breweries all around the world. For the 2018 report, which was the coalition’s 10th, BIER partnered with the Kentucky Distillers’ Association to help...